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Fri 11 Nov 2009Highly readable and dramatic account of the IRA Border campaign
BOOK OF THE DAY: Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962. By Barry Flynn. The Collins Press, pp 214 . €24.95
MILITARY ENDEAVOURS by Irish republicans often end in failure but some failures turn into triumphs, such as the 1916 Rising, whereas others just remain failures, like the ill-fated IRA assault on Northern Ireland that began on December 12th, 1956, and ended on February 26th, 1962.
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